[U-Boot] Please pull u-boot-mpc85xx.git

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Apr 4 21:55:28 CEST 2011


On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 21:42:27 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Kumar Gala,
> 
> In message <16CF6CAD-477C-4E04-93E0-1DADCF05C724 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> > 
> > > powerpc: fix implementation of out_8 to match the other out_XX functions
> >
> > Will pull in.
> 
> Why you?  This is in no way 85xx specific.
> 
> Why does this come up only now?  Why has it not been mentioned in the
> v2010.12 and v2011.03 relese cycles?
> 
> Timur: does this fix any real problem?

It came up here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg43557.html

I don't know of a visible symptom of this as the codebase currently stands,
but it's a bug waiting to happen.  The semantics are different from every
other accessor, and different from Linux (with which U-Boot shares a fair
amount of driver code).

-Scott



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